"On a state-by-state level, [....]if there were no voters under 30, the only states that would switch to Republican presidential candidate John McCain are Indiana and North Carolina.
Without younger voters, Obama would still have won the 270 electoral votes he needs to become the next president. [....] In the make-believe world where no African-Americans voted, while Obama still would have won most of the states that he won, McCain would have been able to take the hotly contested states of Florida, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

The 107 electoral votes from those states would have been enough to shift the map in McCain’s favor."

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LOXAHATCHEE, FL -- A Loxahatchee resident is rattled after he says he came home Sunday evening to find his vehicle and home spray painted with racist graffiti and anti-Obama messages.


"Live with a man 40 years, share his house, his meals, speak one very subject. Then tie him up and hold him over the volcano's edge. And on that day you will finally meet the man"
- Book, Firefly

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Are current events moving us forward as a nation...or just showing how little we've changed over the years?

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No cable? Catch the debate in realtime by clicking on the title above and later check back to read how I dissect some particularly heinous quotes from each candidate in the most inane way possible.

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I got into an interesting discussion yesterday with a good friend. I was lamenting the fact that I currently have little to do with my days now that the economy has taken a nose dive. Her point: "Do you have any idea how many people would love to do nothing and get paid for it?"

I could see where she was coming from. I sit in my office all day reading my favorite websites and playing mindsweeper and I get paid for it. Sweet, right?

But there was one big problem with that statement and its one we all can see coming...getting paid to be unproductive won't last for very long.

Unfortunately, my profession's profitability is quite dependent on other people's profession's profitability. Put simply: they don't make money...I don't make money. Insurance companies, stockbrokers or "Mom and Pop", it doesn't matter to me. If they have no money in their budget for extras than I don't have any money for food, hence why I've examined the existensial qualities of my navel...and gotten totally awesome at bejeweled. (My only real accomplishment in the past few weeks.)

I know and you know that if it comes to light that I have time to peruse the interweb, balance my checkbook...talk to you good people, eventually the higher ups will come to the inevitable conclusion its a lot cheaper for them to allow me to do that from the comfort of my own home.

Basically, I sit, waiting on a time bomb that will bring with it the massive devastation of unemployment, soup lines and a larger no pants radius...and I'm not alone.

Every day on CNN, MSNBC, etc. we hear about company's cutting back, increased inflation and people killing themselves rather than lose their house. People just like me are sitting in offices, cubicles and behind reception desks twiddling their thumbs, checking their email, getting the high score on Flood It! and sending out their resumes wondering just as much as I am "do the bosses know?" and "how long can I get away with it?".

The question she should have asked me isn't how many would like to be in my situation. (Many do and don't like it.) The question she should have asked me is for how long?

Tick...Tick...Tick...

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